A truck hand-designed by Cal Poly mechanical engineering senior Jack Fisher will appear on the upcoming season of the Discovery Channel show, “Twin Turbos.” Fisher co-founded the engineering consulting firm Tekk Consulting during his freshman year at Cal Poly. The firm uses 3D scanning, reverse engineering, automotive chassis — or truck framework — design and […]
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Cal Poly student software developers partner with nonprofits to develop tools for change
Cal Poly students are building free software for nonprofits with the hope of recentering the technology community around social impact. Hack4Impact is a national organization that connects students with nonprofits through software development. Students identify and create software solutions, such as building a website, for nonprofits who may not have sufficient resources to do so. […]
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PROVE Lab takes prototypes to Kennedy Library exhibit
Cal Poly Engineering Club, Prototype Vehicles Laboratory bring Limitless: The Process of Innovation to the second floor of Kennedy Library.
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Cal Poly Tech Park plans to add 850 jobs in the next 20 years
The Cal Poly Technology Park, a multi-tenant building on Mt. Bishop and Highland Drive, plans on expanding by 150,000 square feet in the next 20 years. The Tech Park was established in 2010 by Cal Poly and the California Central Coast Research Partnership (C3RP). The Tech Park, currently in its first phase at 25,000 square […]
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HotHouse opens new manufacturing lab addition for entrepreneurs with $500K grant
After two years of being in the works, Cal Poly’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) has opened a manufacturing lab in their downtown HotHouse, called the HotHouse Annex, for entrepreneurs to use.
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Sacramento State is adding an on-campus, self-driving shuttle. But don’t get your hopes up, it won’t be coming to Cal Poly anytime soon
Fellow California State University (CSU) Sacramento State is welcoming a new addition to its campus this February: an autonomous shuttle named Olli.
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$750,000 granted to Cal Poly professor to further work in his field
Cal Poly physics professor was given a grant that will provide students with the opportunity to work with particle colliders, at home and abroad.
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Cal Poly drones help farmers monitor strawberry growth from the sky
The Precision Agriculture and Automation Club, with bioresource and agricultural engineering professor Bo Liu as the adviser, works with the San Luis Obispo Strawberry Commission to test different ways to grow strawberries by measuring various factors of plant health from the sky. Liu decided to bring aerial photography into this project in order to get […]
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Cal Poly app in development will let students register for classes on the go
The app will bring many of the features Cal Poly students and staff use into one, unified app.
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Students build device to extract carbon dioxide from the air
A group of Cal Poly students and graduates are working to combat climate change with a carbon dioxide capturing device.
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First Elevator Pitch Competition winner returns to Cal Poly, this time with a $25 million business
iCracked Founder AJ Forsythe returned to the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s (CIE) Elevator Pitch Competition 11 years after he pitched his phone repair company idea at Cal Poly. Now with nearly 800,000 repairs, iCracked, that company, has gained national media attention and Forsythe has been featured on Inc. Magazine’s “30 under 30” list. “Winning the […]